The Justice Department is preparing to issue reports on the Ferguson, Mo., police department explaining its expected decision not to file criminal charges against a former officer who killed an unarmed black teen while excoriating the department’s treatment of minorities.

The strained relationship between the African-American community and the police dates back more than a century, and failing to acknowledge it would be “reckless and irresponsible,” Police Commissioner William Bratton said.

Three men died in homicides over the course of less than 13 hours on Thursday and Friday, in separate incidents in Brooklyn, the Bronx and Queens, New York City police said. The killings come in the wake of the city’s record-setting 12-day streak without a reported homicide earlier this month; it was the longest period without a killing in New...

Officers shooting at a speeding car to stop a suspected criminal is standard fare in movies and TV shows. But in real life, more law enforcement agencies are curbing the practice after several incidents led to injuries or deaths.

A member of the team tasked with advising President Joko Widodo on the current conflict between Indonesia’s anticorruption body and its national police says he is confident Mr. Widodo will not inaugurate his controversial current nominee for police chief.